Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“You know that isn’t what I was talking about, Shane.” I pretended to admonish him. It was a defense mechanism for me as much as his humor had been for him. This was a tense situation for all of us, and today had been difficult for us all.
“I know.” He grinned. “But it was still a fun moment, even if it was super short.”
“Yeah.” I smiled and nodded before I moved on. “The night of my birthday, with magic swirling in the air around Joaquin and I, we were once again taken to the Celestial Realm.”
“Really?” they all sat up and seemed instantly more intent on the words that I was saying, but it was Aunt Glory that spoke up. “You haven’t been taken there in a long time.”
“That is true. And the funny thing, Aunt Glory, is that we were taken to the same place that Danu took us when we were in your kingdom. I thought that it was interesting to be returned to that place, especially when the Goddess that had been there before is no longer living in that realm.” It looked to me like everyone was on the edge of their seats as they listened to what I had to say.
“So, if it wasn’t Danu who took you there, who was it?” Riley asked as he literally sat on the edge of his seat. He and the others wouldn’t let me go without telling them right away.
“Well, Joaquin and I met another God that day. A God that is supposed to be the leader of them all.”
“Leader of them all?” Dietrich asked as he too wondered who this mysterious God could have been. “Who?”
“Come on, tell us already, Rivi!” Juniper was losing her ability to be patient, and I nearly laughed at her frantic looking eyes. She was eager, that was for sure.
“We met Odin, who is apparently not just the King of one specific tribe of Norse Gods, but the King of all the Gods. He was chosen millennia ago, and now he is the one that leads them all. He came to meet with Joaquin and I. He is… different. He likes to travel the mortal realm and see what the humans are up to. He says that he usually doesn’t get involved, and I believe that is true. However, he said that he couldn’t stay out of this completely, not this time.”
“Out of what?” Grandfather asked me, his voice tense and his jaw so tight that his mouth barely moved.
“Something is coming. He didn’t tell us what it was, but it has to do with those extremist groups. He said that one of the groups has the ability to bring great destruction upon us if we are not careful.”
“What kind of power could they have?” Dietrich’s eyes were wondering, but there was the darkness of fear hiding in them as well.
“I don’t know, Dietrich, not yet.”
“Want my opinion?” Bryce called out from the middle of the group. He had been silent up to this point.
“Yes, what is it, Bryce?” I asked him, not sure if I was ready for what he had theorized.
“We are trying to figure out what sort of power it is that a human could have that would bring great destruction to us. Well, think about it. We live in modern times. It’s not like they need magic or anything to fight us now. They have modern warfare at their disposal. And if they are creating an army, they would use an army’s weapons. I believe that they will be using things like tanks, guns of various calibers, and even bombs. If they know where to send those bombs, they can wipe us out. If they don’t know where to send them, they will just start bombing civilians.”
“They are already bombing them.” Joaquin pointed out to him, and I was inclined to say the same thing to him.
“Not those bombs. Those are nothing more than sparklers when compared to the weapons that they could be using. I am talking about real bombs, a BLU-82, GBU-43, goliaths, cluster bombs, thermobaric bombs. If they are waging war against us, then they will fight it as a modern war. Not even we super naturals will survive if they decide to bomb the shit out of us.”
The room went silent at Bryce’s words. I don’t think that any of us had thought about this before. Why hadn’t we suspected that in the modern world, when fighting against the humans, they would use modern warfare? It most likely had to do with the fact that we were so used to the magical and fantastical element of the world that we wouldn’t even dare to think about using such tactics in our own lives. And that led to a massive hole in our way of thinking.
“So, we need to focus on people that have the ability to procure those items. Then we have to hope that we can narrow it down to where these people might be and how to capture them.” I shuddered a little as I thought about it all. “We have a lot of work to do, and I don’t think that we have all that much time to waste here.”
“I agree.” Bryce, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair, spoke in a clipped tone of voice. He was not happy about the thoughts that he had had, but now that they were out in the open, we all knew that they were true.
“Do we have any idea where these people are? Where they might be hiding?” Noah was the next to speak. “Do we know where to start the search?”
“Yeah, is there any evidence or clue that would point us in the right direction?” Paul’s voice was strained as he thought about these things as well.
“Tell us that you have something, please, Riviana.” Cedar, feeling as angry about today as Joaquin and I were, begged me to give him something.
“We have a partial name of the city. The suspect stopped himself mid sentence, mid word actually, but we have a start. We suspect that they aren’t that far from here, at the most a few hours away. They would want to be close enough to launch an attack, but far enough away so that they wouldn’t rouse suspicion when they are working on their plans.”
“Alright, so what is this partial name?” Jackson asked eagerly. “We will figure out which town it is, I know that we will.”
“While I was talking to the suspect earlier, he said, and I quote, 鈥業 think that I am done talking now. The Colonel won’t like me speaking to you more. He won’t leave Benkel-鈥? That was where he left off. Now, I don’t know what the rest of the city name is, but we can likely find it with that first part. How many cities within a few hours could start with something like Benkel?” Joaquin was already thinking more than he was focusing on the conversation.
“I agree, it shouldn’t be that difficult to figure this out. And when we do, we will know where to go to arrest these monsters.”
“It’s funny.” Aunt Glory said with absolutely no humor in her voice.
“What is, Aunt Glory?” I asked her, needing her to clarify.
“They call us monsters, but they are the ones that are intent on hurting people and destroying the world. Yes, we have all killed our fair share of people, but they were primarily during battles. It wasn’t that we just killed people because we didn’t like them. And, I admit, we have killed far less people since Riviana has taken over than we all did before then.”
“That is true.” Bryce nodded. “You have brought more peace to our world, there are far less senseless deaths than there used to be in generations previous.”
“I agree.” Grandfather said as he stood up. “The amount of in-fighting in packs and between other packs used to be so vast that there were deaths all the time. Look at what happened to Joaquin’s father. However, with you at the helm, Riviana, you have brought more peace to the world. The packs get along better, the different species of shifters get along better, and even the magic users and shifters stopped fighting. And it is all because you were here to unite us all.”
“Almost all of us. I am not a vampire, so I can’t say that I had any effect there.” I laughed as I made the joke. I needed to take the focus all my supposed bringing of world peace.
“No, you are not a vampire, Riviana, but I am.” Dietrich grinned at me. “And with your alliance with me, you brought peace with us as well. The shifters stopped fighting us, not that it was a major thing anyway, but they didn’t want to upset either of us because of our alliances. So, I would say that you had a hand in that as well.”
“Alright, can we stop talking about this? We have more important things to discuss.” I felt like blushing, but I was keeping it at bay with sheer force of will.
“Yeah, sure, no problem.” Vincent laughed at me. “But we will all still think it, because we all know it’s true. And I know that with you at the lead, Riviana, we will be able to bring peace once again. This time with the humans on board as well.”